Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman fares have not been cut 1¢ to meet present price levels. Western and Southern roads have voluntarily dropped the notorious 50% surcharge on Pullman space which many a passenger wrongly held against the Pullman Co. instead of the railroads. Eastern roads with heavier passenger traffic have neither dropped the surcharge nor reduced the basic fare...
...issue is filled with digs at Princeton but this time the keepers of the Tiger have been permitted a chance to reply. According to a Lampy editor, the funny boys have made it plain to each other that their homes are in the sty and their fare consists of garbage...
...surprising thing, after considering the enormous vote getting resources available to the New Dealers is that Mr. Roosevelt and his policies did not fare better than they did in the last Literary Digest poll. It begins to look as if the ability of Mr. Roosevelt as a politician has been overrated, if we consider the enormous number of people in the country who are sure to vote for him, for no other reason than because they are on Mr. Roosevelt's relief lists. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt is not a great politician but only a great evader of questions and issues...
...populace. We don't know who is responsible for it. Mr. Westcott's name is mentioned, but he should know better than to say that doughnuts are never served and that the "Harvard student usually starts (breakfast) with orange juice." In view of the recent bills of fare, we sense a bit of irony in the announcement that tomato juice and apple pie with ice cream are "in great demand." And the reason that students don't eat pancakes is because they don't want to wait to have them cooked...
Every now and then a cinema comes from across the sea to break up the monotony of a steady fare of Hollywood banalities, which restores our faith and interest in motion pictures. Such a picture is "The Blue Light" now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre, the work of Fraulein Leni Riefenstahl, now much in the public eye because of her intimate friendship with Der Fuehrer...